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‘API's Going Mainstream’ Takes a Deep Dive into the API Economy in Chicago this September—Highlights Include Relevant, Provocative Session Topics and High Caliber Speakers

API Strategy & Practice Conference

We’ve worked hard to bring together leading companies in providing APIs across a whole spectrum of challenges.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB)July 14, 2014

Today, the API Strategy & Practice Conference unveiled the program and new speakers for the upcoming API’s Going Mainstream in Chicago at the Hyatt Regency, September 24-26, 2014. The conference will have tracks on topics as diverse as Media, Civic Government, Enterprise, the Internet of Things, API Security, API Marketing, and API Architecture. There are also three timely and relevant keynote panels on API Driven App Development, API Copyright and Legal Issues, and APIs and Adaptive Intelligence for the Enterprise. New speakers include thought leaders from ExactTarget, Keen.io, Layer7, Mulesoft, PBS, Pearson, R/GA, Salesforce, SendGrid, SmartBear, Stormpath, Stripe, Twilio, WS02 and more. The newly announced program is available here.

“The API Strategy & Practice Conference is becoming known for both leading edge industry discussion, as well as a source of best practices and practical issues for organizations with APIs,” said Steven Willmott, CEO of 3SCALE. “We’ve worked hard to bring together leading companies in providing APIs across a whole spectrum of challenges, as well as resources for app developers who use these APIs day in, day out.”

The full program spans three days of thought leadership and in-depth discussion surrounding the API Economy. APIs (application programming interfaces) are quickly becoming critical pieces of system infrastructure, and more and more organizations are faced with decisions on how to build and manage APIs within their businesses.

Early bird ticket sales end soon. Register here by August 8, 2014 and save $200. Registration options also include an option to stay in the event hotel at a reduced rate.

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are changing the face of digital business by enabling new business and technical strategies across many industries.The API Strategy & Practice Conference offers a unique program of keynotes, panels, and themed sessions to provide insights into the potential of APIs, best practices, and how to craft a successful API strategy. The inclusive, community supported conference series focuses on what works for API creators and consumers alike by bringing industry leaders together in one forum. Now in its second year, the fourth conference will be held in March 2014 in Amsterdam. The conference is co-organized by 3SCALE and API Evangelist, and is made possible by the generous support of the event sponsors. http://www.apistrategyconference.com

About API Evangelist:

API Evangelist is run by Kin Lane, a technology professional with an obsession for application programming interfaces or APIs. His blog at API Evangelist chronicles API evolution and seeks to provide insights and best practice from both a technical and business perspective. He also writes at APIVoice and APIStack.

About 3SCALE:

3SCALE provides a comprehensive API infrastructure that helps both API providers to easily package, distribute, manage, and monetize APIs, and users of APIs to interact with them in a simple way. 3SCALE’s API Provider SaaS infrastructure is flexible, secure, and web scalable, and enables the distribution of a company's data, content or services to multiple devices or mobile/web applications, as well as the ability to easily productize APIs. Since 2009, more than 130,000 developers are consuming more than 400 APIs exposed using 3SCALE. Customers span the Fortune 500, government, academia, and startups, including Johnson Controls, SITA, Transport For London (TFL), UC Berkeley, Skype, Wine.com among others. For more information visit http://www.3scale.net

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